** ALBANIA [non]. 9395, UT Tue April 3 at 0202, WRMI still with Radio Tirana in Italian instead of English. No reply yet from shortwaveservice about fixing this, maybe on holiday, but BRIAN POWELL, VK2FBAJ, Sydney, Australia, says, ``I think the issue lies with their feed of Radio Tirana, which I suspect is Radio360.eu. The podcasts I am subscribed to (R. Tirana and R. Havana) have been in the incorrect language since the shift to summer time a couple of weeks ago, so I would suspect that timed recordings at Radio360 have not been adjusted appropriately. R. Havana via Radio360 podcasts has been corrected in the last week or so.`` Another good reason for dispensing with ``daylight time`` (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1924, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, April 2 circa 1930, RAE in German via WRMI; but 2003 check on caradio, in VOA News, so must still be Oldies this hour instead of RAE Italian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CONGO. 6115, April 3 at 0555, checking for Brazzaville, but no signal; recheck at 0604, now there is a carrier. Maybe signed on in the interim, missed by my itchy finger tuners. On March 30, Ron Howard said he ``just missed sign-on at 0555`` as CCI from R. Nikkei 2, Japan was growing. As we get further into spring and summer, RN2 should be propagating less and less, by Congo about the same insofar as relation to sunrise/sunsets (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15439 & 15301, April 2 at 1343, these RHC spurs are equally audible in FM and AM tuning, unusual. Fundamental 15370 must be heard in AM only. The second pair out also have some AM, but more FM, 15508 & 15233 [vs 15230]. More at ~69 kHz multiples are blobby: 15577, 15646, 15715? 15163, 15095? Something`s always wrong at RHC.

15370, April 3 at 1337, not on yet so no spurs either. By 1415 is on with all these approx. FM blobs: 15439, 15507, 15575, 15643; 15302, 15234, 15166, 15098, 15040, 14962 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUAM. 12140.010, UT Sunday April 1 at 2208, KSDA, AWR with preaching in English, praise music, seems some IADs - intermittent audio dropouts, good S9+10; NOT `Wavescan`. There had been some contradictory info about whether WS was on this transmission, which is not in English every day, such as UT Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRELAND [non]. 5820, April 3 at 1931 via UTwente SDR, a JBA carrier. Checking for RTÃ via Madagascar, as reported from Italy as if it had been reactivated after a couple years. I suspect it`s more likely a Europirate; Wolfgang BÃschel replies:

``Glenn, I asked the pirate group guys now to identify the pirate pop station from Netherlands, many adverts of Holland firms, like Subaru cars in Rotterdam. And "Frank H. Schuettig" replied to that:

** TURKEY. 9460, April 2 at 2013, poor S5-S8, music mix, hints of German? Must be those umlauts, since by 2057* I can tell it`s TÃrkish (why so many Turx find Deutschland a heimat?) Yes, TRT scheduled here until 2100 per EiBi, but missing from HFCC. Did not notice it being off-frequency-plus as usual from Emirler.

11615.032, April 3 at 2011, music at S2-S4; 2019 talk but can`t tell language; 2023 recognizable TRT IS. So VOT in scheduled French from 1930 to West Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1923 monitoring: confirmed Sunday April 1 after 2330 on WBCQ, 9330v-CUSB, good and stronger than 9265 WINB & 9395 WRMI. Also confirmed UT Monday April 2 from 0303 on Area 51 webcast; and good S9 at 0326 check on WBCQ 5129.81. Not confirmed at 0330 on WRMI 9955, JBA carrier but confirmed on webcast at 0344. And guess what, instead of R. Biafra zombie file at 0400 on webcast only, WOR repeats! Tnx, Jeff. By 0435 World Music. Will have to check other nights what happen: UT Wed April 4 at 0425, entrevista in Spanish. 0431 music; 0530 Slovakia in Spanish!

** U S A. 7490+, UT Tue April 3 at 0100, WBCQ with a recent `Allan Weiner Worldwide` repeat, and still at 0153 recheck, instead of Blalock the Blaster, who had been showing more than once in this hour; neither on the schedule alleging that 7490 close at 0100* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9475, April 2 at 2014, WTWW-1 is OFF, and so are all the other four possible frequencies. 5830 also off at 0559 April 3 (while neighbor 5935 WWCR is VG) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS:Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many ofthem too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated,inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors tomanage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues:http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser

DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS:Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many ofthem too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated,inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors tomanage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues:http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser

** CUBA. 15439 approx., April 1 at 1323, RHC FM spurblobs are back! No fooling. These had been suppressed for a fortnight since last heard March 15 on daily chex. I *knew* that would not be a permanent fix. Out of 15370-AM transmitter; at approx. plus/minus 69 kHz intervals. 15439 and its match 15301 are clearly audible in FM mode, no noise. The next pair out, 15233 (vs RHC-AM 15230) and 15509, are almost as good. Also detectable, progressively weaker, circa: 15165, 15096, 15025, 14957; 15578, 15647, 15714, 15782. All of them are accompanied by the F# tone above middle C --- at the outer ranges, that`s the only tipoff that the spur is there. Fortunately 15439 is far enough away not to bother 15450 Turkey in English. And 15509 is far enough away not to bother 15520 REE in Spanish from 1400. Pure luck, of course.

By 1337, `En Contacto` is starting late. Will Arnie ever say a word about RHC`s galaxy of spurs and constant operational / technical foulups? Of course not! Even tho he would surely blame them on the Yanqui embargo/blockade. He has enumerated only 93 ways to enjoy radio, but tnx to RadioCuba, where something is always wrong, I have a ninety-fourth (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 9580, April 1 at 0118, `Ritmo de China`, CRI in Spanish instead of English! April fool? CRI English relay is still nearby on 9570 via ALBANIA, or rather ``China Plus``. The dirty 9580 transmitter also emits extremely distorted spurblobs approx. plus / minus 17 kHz around 9563 & 9597. Partially readable if I switch to FM mode. Also traces of second-order blob at +34 = 9614, while if any at minus 34, 9536, blocked by another RHC fundamental on 9535. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 9490, April 1 at 0113, wall-of-noise jamming, with Spanish(?) talk JBA under, but a definite carrier. Nothing on 7350, despite registrations for RMI via Issoudun, FRANCE on the lower starting at 0200 toward Cuba. Evidently both time and frequency for Radio RepÃblica are wrong, still on 9490 as in B-17 and A-17, and due to Yanqui-Cuban DST, starting at least an hour earlier at 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. UNIDENTIFIED pirate, 6905-AM, April 1 at 0050, very repetitive music loop, or is it SFX? Signal grows to S9+20/25. 0053 brief talkover in language? unseems English; no ToH ID or any further announcements until off abruptly at 0102*. (Meanwhile my streetlite has ignited at *0057 with an RF noise burst, prompted by cloudy sunset.) Numerous others logs of 6905, all unID:https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,41449.0.htmland it came back on later:https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,41457.0.htmlI`m amazed at the musical knowledge of the HFU loggers; about all I would have recognized was Pinball Wizard, earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PALAU. 9965, April 1 at 1400, no signal from T8WH/KHBN/LeSea, tho supposedly scheduled until 1430 as heard last weekend March 24-25, with signal so strong it could have been WHRI, and also a mixture of both? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PHILIPPINES. 9380, April 1 at 1403, Jesus-sermon in English S4-S6 with alternate/consecutive translation into something. That would be Chinese from FEBC, 100 kW, 345 degrees from Bocaue, scheduled 1000-1600. I first thought of AIR Aligarh, which is registered for Hindi at 0815-1200 & 1305-0040, 250 kW at 188 degrees. Are these two really time-sharing to avoid collisions?

FEBC 9380 is ex-9430 in B-17, where there was no such conflict. Why did they move, and especially onto a well-established AIR frequency? However, I must say that I heard no sign of AIR QRM. One is aimed across India, the other into China from a much different angle (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RWANDA [non]. 15420, March 31 at 1759, open carrier stops my memory scan on the BSR-1 caradio, 1800 African music, 1804 starts talking in presumed Kinyarwanda, mentions shortwave, but no ID heard. This is R. Itahuka, weekly hour via MADAGASCAR, which some reports still claim is in Kirundi, related language of the neighboring ex-Belgian colony. Not that I can tell the difference, but the default assumption should be Kinyarwanda, u.o.s. Recheck finds it cutting off at 1900:08* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SLOVAKIA [non]. 9455, Sunday April 1 at 1404, R. Eslovaquia Internacional still in daily secret Spanish broadcast via WRMI. I had asked, why would they want a third morning broadcast? Answer probably: for the PDT zone, where it`s 7 am, while the others are really too early out there, if they are even propagating. I say secret because this doesn`t show on the WRMI skeds; I haven`t yet caught a schedule announcement, if any, so I seek the RSI Spanish page. It`s hard to find if you go to default English first, but finally:http://esrsi.rtvs.sk/como-escucharnosis quite outdated, with info as of 2015 and no mention of this broadcast, wrong times for some others. What do they know in Bratislava`s inverted pyramid? (Guillermo Glenn Hauser, Oclajoma, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 15520, Sunday April 1 at 1356, REE earworm IS, VG S9+10, by chance escaping the reactivated RHC spurfield above and below it; this frequency was missing yesterday. This early, 15520 is better than 17855 for North America; and no signal on 15390, the defective transmitter which on the weekend extensions is supposedly on 21620 before 1800, totally inaudible here. Neither HFCC nor Aoki/NDXC present accurate A-18 scheduling for NOBlejas.

** SRI LANKA. 11905, April 1 at *0114:48 carrier on from SLBC, but no prÃlude or mis-timesignal audible before some talk from 0115:11; maybe there but just too weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1923 monitoring: confirmed Saturday March 31 at 2130 on WBCQ, 9330.479v-CUSB, fair (as measured a few minutes earlier during BS, but later back to 9330.3v or so). Also confirmed Sat Mar 31 at 2300 on WRMI 7780, fair. Also confirmed UT Sun April 1 at 0200 on WRMI 7780, good. Also confirmed on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, UT Sunday April 1 at 0354 about 22 minutes in so started late circa 0332, as I was still hearing ham news at 0330.

** U S A. 3215, April 1 at 0046, WWRB with usual Saturday night pair of gospel-huxters, and splattering out plus/minus 20 kHz. Evidently off by 0059, as no 3185 or 3195 at 0107 check, once WWCR has overtaken 3215, which is splattering only plus/minus 10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

9475, April 1 at 0110, WTWW-1 big rough signal but undermodulated interview with someham on phone, not by Ted; rather than SFAW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1140, April 1 at 0132, Newsradio 1140 WRVA ID, and ``now on 96.1 FM``. How now? I enter 96.1 and Richmond in the WTFDA FM Database search fields, to find only one, 50 kW WQLK in Richmond, Indiana. But then searching VA instead of Richmond, I find the itty-bitty they are really hyping, a 145-watt translator, W241AP, in Midlothian, a southwest-side suburb (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** UZBEKISTAN [and non]. 9955, April 1 at 1400, JBA music, as I tune in just after WRMI cuts off for its 7-hour daily break. HFCC shows AWR, 100 kW, 131 degrees via Tashkent at 1330-1400 in Hmn, Ind, Asm depending on day of week; so presumably that prolonged, as nothing else scheduled. Only one other 9955 in HFCC is T8WH Palau (``HBN``) at 1000-1100. The WRMI frequency skedgrid shows 9955 from *1000 on Sundays only, otherwise *1100; while the 9955 program schedule starts everyday at 1000 UT! with R. Praga M-F = L-V (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 9514.957, March 31 at 1004, off-frequency song, 1010 Brazuguese talk at S3-S6, 1012 ``Old Rugged Cross`` hymn. It`s RÃdio Marumby, Curitiba, ParanÃ, which I never hear in the evening, or daytime. Aoki/NDXC showed sked of 08-21 UT. Also lite het from something close to 9515.0 which would be CNR2, Beijing. Other off-frequency ZYs also showing on this band now around 9630, 9725 and strongest 9665 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6060, March 31 at 0358, RHC closing English hour // 6000 and 6165. 6060 of course is supposed to be in Spanish until 0500 switch to English, and it often is, but this re-justifies my including ``6060?`` in pre-0500 timings for `DXers Unlimited` in DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 9490, March 31 at 0217, wall-of-noise jamming, and perhaps a trace of a carrier, really from Radio RepÃblica? For A-18 it`s supposedly changed to 7350 at 02-04 UT (Sat & Sun -05, meaning UT Sun & Mon?), but there is NO carrier and no jamming either on this frequency via France. Same situation at 0335 recheck. So not yet clear what`s going on here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CZECHIA [non]. 5850, Friday March 30 at 2330, WRMI is on with Radio Prague in English. Per skedgrid, apparently applies to Fridays only with unspecified programming after Yeshua at 2230-2300; what was at 2300, maybe still Tirana English? This is also a secret airing of R. Prague, not shown on schedule for this or any frequency at 2330. Other days, 5850 is not starting until *0000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1923 monitoring: confirmed Friday March 30 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330v-CUSB, good, equivalent signal to 9265 WINB and 9395 WRMI, rarely the case. Also confirmed Saturday March 31 at 1447, the now 1431 on Hamburger Lokalradio, via UTwente SDR, still on 6190-CUSB: poor but mostly readable against noise level rather than QRM. By 1457 there is lite CCI, 1459 as HLR goes off, increasing from CRI, and heavy ACI. Alan Gale, England, also reports on this:

``Hi Glenn, In spite of the earlier time, World of Radio was audible right the way through today, though the signal was a bit weaker than in recent weeks up to around 1450, when the signal started to come up in strength. Prior to that there had been no sign of the Chinese station, but that started to appear around that time as well, though was fairly weak. Unusually, I was even able to hear the final words plus the HLR short announcement at 1500 UT, which is usually masked by an Interval Signal.

With the Mighty KBC remaining at 1500 UT on 9400, there was no clashbetween the two programmes this week, and I was able to record World of Radio, so a short clip of the final minute is attached so you can hear how it sounded here. 73, Alan`` --- Tnx, Alan; sounds a bit weaker than on UTwente this time. Next:

** U S A. 9455, March 31 at 1002, JBA carrier, presumably WRMI still on with System F as scheduled, 285 degrees close to usward, but MUF at its lowest diurnal dip pre-sunrise. Should be on 5 or 7 MHz band at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. (7490), March 31 at 0000, WBCQ webcast with almost-dead air, but I can barely hear the closing comments of the previous program `FKB Radio Sermon Time` being played back, before the William Tell Overture theme to `Allan Weiner Worldwide` starts. I think this is what happens: instead of monitoring 7490 direct off the air in FLA, Allan is also listening to delayed webfeed to take his cue.

Starts off with religious stuff. Recheck at 0043 refers to ``my lovely girlfriend Angela``, altho last week he called her ``mate``. We`re dying to see her, and the WBCQ website has some obscure linx to photo galleries.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/28334187@N07/This shows lots of equipment and humans, some out of favor or deceased, including the late Jennifer, but I don`t find any shots of Angela. You have to hover over each one to see a caption.

John Carver`s report: ``Show started on time this evening after some seconds of dead air. Listening on 5130 this evening with a strong S7. Allan and Angela on the air. I assume from studio 9 in FLA, but he never actually says, this evening.

Opening monologue equates Passover with freedom and talk continues in this vein until interrupted by an early phone call from Dave in Indiana who is complaining of problems with the VA. Talk drifted to school shootings again and the lack of God in schools of late. Talk of depression, mental illness, psychotropic drugs, etc. Another impassioned talk about people's rights and attempts to modify the constitution. Allan stated that the general mood of the country's whackos implied that he was responsible for all the country's problems since he was a white, christian male.

Talk drifted to portions of an interview with Elon Musk talking of the dangers of AI. Then a warning to listeners about new legislation being written to deal with pirate radio.

Reading of emails began at 0055. Closing prayer began at 0057 after an attempt to get Angela to lead tonight's prayer. Show was off the air at 0059 although Allan and Angela could be heard talking very low until Brother Stair started at 0103. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7385, March 31 at 0349, WHRI gospel huxtress at meter maximum, S9+60! HFCC has a complex set of registrations implying at this hour it`s only 100 kW, at 315 degrees, while we are more like 300. But 250 kW transmitter is also used at various other times on 315 or 25 or 47 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)